TNT SPORTS presenter Orla Chennaoui has opened up on her horrifying mugging ordeal after meeting Hilary Clinton.
Cycling coverage host Chennaoui was a key part of Discovery’s coverage last year during the Paris Olympics in 2024.
But in a mini life update on social media, she has opened up on an incredibly topsy-turvy week which went from an event with the former First Lady of the United States to getting her phone snatched out of her hand in London.
Chennaoui started off the Instagram post by recounting her return to Queen’s University Belfast to host an anniversary dinner featuring Clinton.
The 78-year-old was named a chancellor at the Uni in 2020 and revealed an £8million bursaries fund to help more students have access to higher education.
Chennaoui, 47, said she was “overwhelmed” by the honour as she shared the story with her 135,000 Instagram followers.
However, the following morning she revealed how she had seen her phone stolen straight out of her hand.
She said: “I was mugged on the way to the station the following morning.
“Total cliché, hooded gent on a bike snatched it out of my hand.
“Panic for the family, who only heard me screaming before the phone went dead, and couldn’t get hold of me…
“But in the end could have been much worse, only a stolen, no bodily damage.”
However, her week went from bad to worse as Chennaoui revealed how she also needed to have surgery on her left hand after severing a tendon.
She added: “When I cut my finger while crafting with my daughter last week, turns out I’d slice to the bone and severed a tendon.
“Surgeon took one look and decided we had to operate on the spot (thank you for foregoing your lunch break Dr.
“I’ll save you the gory pics, but this is what I’ve been left with for now.
“So in the same week that I was mugged, I was left with one inoperable hand
“Sometimes good stuff happens, sometimes bad, the universe isn’t out to get you, it just is what it is.”
